OBITUARY -- Berta Margoulies O'Hare

Published
4:00 am PST, Friday, March 22, 1996

Bay Area sculptor Berta Margoulies died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at her Walnut Creek home. She was 88.

Mrs. Margoulies worked with a wide variety of sculpting media, including bronze, wood, stone and terra cotta. Her artwork is part of the permanent collections of several museums across the country, including the Whitney Museum in New York, the Des Moines Art Institute and the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington,

D.C.

Her work was represented most recently at the Los Angeles County Museum during the institute's 1994 retrospective of American sculpture.

Mrs. Margoulies was born in Lowitz, Poland, and lived as a child in Belgium and London. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Hunter College in New York. She studied art at the Art Students' League of New York, and the Academie Julien and Colarossi in Paris. She lived in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts before moving to California with her family in 1991.